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Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 32 (search)
while the Four Hundred came into office on Thargelion the 21st; and the Council elected by lot was due to enter office on Scirophorion the 14.The three dates are about May 31, June 7, and June 30. In this way therefore the oligarchy was set up, in the archonship of Callias, about a hundred years after the expulsion of the tyrants, the chief movers having been Peisander, Antiphon and Theramenes, men of good birth and of distinguished reputation for wisdom and judgement. But when this constitution had been set up, the Five Thousand were only nominally chosen, but the Four Hundred with the aid of the Ten with autocratic powersThe Ten Generals, see Aristot. Ath. Pol. 31.2. entered the Council-chamber and governed the state. They also sent envoys to the Lacedaemonians and proposed to conclude peace on terms of uti possidetis; but the Lacedaemonians would not consent unless Athens would also relinquish the empire of the sea, so that they finally abandoned the project.
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 33 (search)
, in the year of the archonship of Theopompus, who received the office for the remaining ten months. But when they had been worsted in the naval battle off Eretria and the whole of Euboea except Oreum had revolted, they were more distressed at the misfortune than by any previous disaster (for they were actually getting more support from Euboea than from Attica), and they dissolved the Four Hundred and handed over affairs to the Five Thousand that were on the armed roll,Cf. Aristot. Ath. Pol. 4.2, Aristot. Ath. Pol. 29.5. having passed by vote a resolution that no office should receive pay. The persons chiefly responsible for the dissolution were Aristocrates and Theramenes, who disapproved of the proceedings of the Four Hundred; for they did everything on their own responsibility and referred nothing to the Five Thousand. But Athens seems to have been well governed during this critical period, although a war was going on and the government was confined to the armed roll.
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 38 (search)
ned this office did not proceed to do the things for the purpose of which they had been elected, but sent to Sparta to procure help and to borrow funds. But this was resented by those within the constitution, and the Ten, in their fear of being deposed from office and their desire to terrify the others (which they succeeded in doing), arrested one of the most leading citizens, Demaretus, and put him to death, and kept a firm hold upon affairs, while Callibius and the Peloponnesians at Athens actively supported them, and so did some members of the corps of Knights as well; for some of the Knights were the most eager of all the citizens that the men at Phyle should not return. But the party holding Peiraeus and Munichia, now that the whole of the people had come over to their side, began to get the upper hand in the war, and so finally they deposed the ten who had been elected first, and chose ten others whom they thought to be the best men, and while these were in power t
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 41 (search)
These events then came about in the following periods; but at the date mentioned the people having become sovereign over affairs established the now existing constitution, in the archonship of Pythodorus, when the People's having accomplished its return by its own efforts made it appear just for it to assume the government. In the list of reforms this was the eleventh in number. There first occurred the organization of the original constitution after the settlement at Athens of Ion and his companions, for it was then that the people were first divided into the four Tribes and appointed the Tribal Kings. The second constitution, and the first subsequent one that involved a constitutional point,The Greek text is very doubtful, but apparently the constitution in the time of Ion is taken as the starting point, and the eleven revolutions follow. was the reform that took place in the time of Theseus, which was a slight divergence from the royal constitution. After that
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 56 (search)
claims to exemption on the ground of having performed that public service before, or of being exempt because of having performed another service and the period of exemption not having expired, or of not being of the right age (for a man serving as Chorus-leader for the boys must be over forty). He also appoints Chorus-leaders for Delos and a Procession-leader for the thirty-oared vessel that carries the youths.For the festival at Delos see Aristot. Ath. Pol. 54.7; boys' choruses went from Athens. He supervises processions, the one celebrated in honor of Asclepius when initiates keep a watch-night, and the one at the Great Dionysia, in which he acts jointly with the Supervisors; these were formerly ten men elected by show of hands by the People, and they found the expenses of the procession out of their own pockets, but now they are elected by lot, one from each tribe, and given 100 minae for equipment; and he also supervises the procession of Thargelia, and the one in
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 57 (search)
These are the matters superintended by the Archon. But the King superintends, first, the mysteries, in co-operation with Superintendents elected by show of hands by the People, two from the whole body of the citizens, one from the Eumolpidae and one from the Heralds.The Eumolpidae and Kerykes were two ancient priestly families at Athens. Next the Dionysia in LenaeonHeld at the Limnae, S.E. of the Acropolis, at the end of January. The 7th Attic month, Gamelion (January-February), was in old Ionic called Lenaeon.; this festival consists of a procession and a competition, the former conducted by the King and the Superintendents jointly, the latter organized by the King. He also holds all the Torch-race Competitions; also he is the director of practically all the ancestral sacrifices. He holds the court that tries charges of impiety and disputed claims to hereditary priesthoods. He adjudicates between clans and between priests in all disputed claims to privileges.
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), Fragments (search)
a deliberate bowdlerization of the legend. Xuthus, King of Peloponnesus, married Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens, after whose death he was banished; but Creusa's son Ion was recalled to aid Athens in war with Eleusis, won them victorAthens in war with Eleusis, won them victory, and died and was buried in Attica. of Xuthus.> *)ek tw=n *(hraklei/dou peri\ *politeiw=n. Erechtheus was succeeded as king by Pandion, who divided up his realm among his sons Schol. Aristoph. Wasur. Hipp. 11. He came to Scyros Athens, father of Theseus, is not connected in any extant myth with the Aegean island of Scyros.> Schol. Va *)ek tw=n *(hraklei/dou peri\ *politeiw=n. Kings were no longer chosen from the house of Codrus,King of Athens, died 1068 B.C. (by the mythical chronology). because they were thought to be luxurious and to have become soft. But one
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